Police Scotland - Ginny McKenna
Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts
Steven D Gould
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Steve chats with retired Scottish officer Ginny McKenna. Ginny has some GREAT stories form across the pond! She goes into great detail about her struggle with PTSD and how she has successfully battled it over her 23 year career. Ginny is now committed to helping other officers face their greatest mental health challenges as a life coach and incident stress and support facilitator. She has a truly inspiring message and it was a pleasure to have her on the show!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to the podcast that interviews active and retired police officers |
| 0:13.0 | about their most intense bizarre and sometimes humorous moments on the job. |
| 0:18.5 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:19.5 | This episode is going to be a good one. |
| 0:21.6 | I just have a feeling. |
| 0:22.6 | I got an email from a Scottish police officer, her name is Ginny McKinna. |
| 0:27.3 | She was retired in June 2020 and she wanted to come on and share some stories. |
| 0:32.6 | Ginny did 23 years over 23 years in the Scottish police force which I see described or listed |
| 0:40.0 | as police Scotland which is already I'm seeing the differences between us and the police |
| 0:45.7 | Scotland is what they call it and she's now been through incident stress and support |
| 0:50.5 | facilitator training and is doing that in some life coaching to help officers deal with |
| 0:56.6 | stress of the job and PTSD. |
| 0:58.4 | So I want to hear about that. |
| 1:00.4 | I want to hear some Scottish stories. |
| 1:02.1 | I hope I didn't ask maybe I should have. |
| 1:05.5 | I hope I can understand her because I've seen some pretty thick Scottish brogues before |
| 1:12.7 | but I love the accent and I think we're going to be okay. |
| 1:16.3 | She asked to come on the show so I'm guessing she's the accent isn't too too thick. |
| 1:21.7 | So without further ado, she's waiting on the other line. |
| 1:24.7 | Let me dial up dial her up if I'm going to say so already this is episode number 64 |
| 1:29.3 | is one the big six four now. |
| 1:31.6 | All right, here we go. |
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